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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Jersey City, though Newark is the most common New Jersey city in fiction. Also, it's not like foreign countries get treated better in Hollywood, with only their capital cities appearing most of the time and them always getting destroyed to demonstrate a threat.
To be fair, my country is only known for two cities at best and sometimes the yanks think the capital is the one from another country, its portrait either falls on the whole country being a crime ridden slum filled with brown people or a place where foreigners go for wild paid sex and cocaine fueled debauchery.
Hollywood isn't exactly the best place to learn geography, besides I am still baffled how nearly every movie featuring Washington DC has skyscrapers. I've been there, the Capitol is the tallest building I managed to see if you exclude the Washington monument.
Inter arma enim silent leges@Tomu. I remember reading Scalia wanted to make his opinions understood by the common man. Thus I doubt his actual thought process for okaying torture was "Jack Baur does it therefore it is okay". He was just using an apology he thought was humorous and would get the point across to any average citizen who wanted to read the opinion.
Oh and Hollywood only shows the non cosmopolitan parts of the country when it wants to make a point about how poor and stupid and unenlightened the people their are. Not that I disagree much. The first President the American people did elect when popular voting was implemented was after all Andrew Jackson.
edited 14th Feb '16 5:21:51 PM by JackOLantern1337
I Bring Doom,and a bit of gloom, but mostly gloom.Doubleposting because I just saw this:
That Clinton attack ad reminds me of my Windows 98 machine. Yeah, I'd beat it up... with more solid implements than a wooden baseball bat.
Donald Trump's supporters on social media are as classy as ever
. Would any of the characters they've stolen for use approve of Trump's policies? Somehow I suspect a Word of God denial of such will just result in fan fiction and/or doujins where that is not the case. They did so for the Movement that Shall Not Be Named after all...
That Clinton video was pretty pathetic. 'A majority of financial experts put 90 percent of the responsibility for the housing crash on the backs of Wall Street banks', which links to...one blogger. Also an obviously edited video, and when I looked at the original, Clinton actually takes the side of most homeowners and takes Wall Street to task for its irresponsibility.
Obvious bad faith, beneath this forum.
edited 15th Feb '16 5:55:29 AM by Achaemenid
Schild und Schwert der ParteiSo. I am late to the party but ding dong the witch is dead (Haha I am hilarious for mocking the joke of a person this person being Antonin Scalia) but anyways...who is likely to replace him and when...?
It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes![]()
The only name I've heard has been Sri something, an appeal circuit judge who got his post on a 97-0 vote in the Senate. However, it's only been posited by pundits, not by anyone in the White House, though the efforts the Republican Senators would have to go through to justify blocking him would have to be entertaining.

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